The D.C. Office of Inspector General (OIG) has released the bombshell report on preferential school admissions in 2015 by former D.C. Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson. Henderson, who left the D.C.

Open government got a vote of confidence Thursday (18) as a D.C. Council committee approved more resources for the Office this coming year (beginning October 1) and new autonomy to develop and control its own budget.

In this suit testing the enforcement powers in the D.C. Open Meetings Act, Superior Court Judge John Campbell heard argument last Friday (28) on pending motions from both sides for summary judgment (decision without a...

Since public access opened over a year ago, FOIA requests for video from Metropolitan Police body-worn cameras (BWC) have numbered just over sixty and redacting those released so far has cost only $25,000.

D.C. Council Members David Grosso (Ind.-At Large) and Mary Cheh (D-Ward 3) on March 15 introduced a bill packed with updates to District laws to strengthen citizens' access to the government information they need.

The District of Columbia, citing the "novelty" of this Open Meetings Act enforcement action, got more time over the holidays for the mayor's Caribbean Community Affairs Commission to figure out its next step in the case.